Fake Insecticides: Man To Spend Two Years In Prison

Justice Evoh Chukwu of a Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced a middle-aged man, Mr. Okwara Emmanuel, to two-years inprisonment for manufacturing fake insecticides.

The convict had earlier pleaded guilty to the six-count charge filed against him by federal government pleaded and urged the court through his counsel, Ugochukwu Oparah, for leniency.
He was arrested following a petition written against him to the National Agency For Food, Drug and Administration Control, NAFDAC, which raided his mini factory last at Kuje where he was arrested with a gas cylinder and empty cartons of insecticides.

In the chrge filed by Umar Shamaki, counsel to the federal government in the matter, okwara was accused of manufacturing unregistered Raid, Baygon, Mortein insecticides and Dettol antiseptic products.

According to the charge, the offence was contrary to section 1 of the Food, Drug and Related Products Act, Cap. F33, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and punishable under section 6(1) of the same Act.

According to a witness in the case, Olaolu Shuaibu, a police officer attached to NAFDAC enforcement office, a director in charge of enforcement received a petition against the convict and ordered for his arrest.

"After the petition was received, a directive came from the office of the director to storm Kuje, where Okwara was producing the unwholesom products. He was arrested with a gas cylinder and empty containers of various types of insecticides"

One of the charges reads, "That you Okwara Emmanuel 'M' of Okanga Plaza, Guduaba, Kuje area Council Abuja, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court on or about the 7th day of November, 2014 at Kuje area council, Abuja sells fake Drug Product to wit, Baygon, Mortein, Raid Insecticides and Dettol Antiseptic and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 1(b) of counterfeit and fake Drugs and Unwholesome processed Foods (Miscellaneous provision) Act, Cap C.34, LFN 2004 and Punishable Under Section2(1)(a) of the same Act.

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